Diffusers is a PyTorch-based library and generative AI framework used to build, train, and deploy diffusion pipelines for producing multi-modal media. It provides a suite of tools for generating images, video, and audio from natural language descriptions, as well as specialized systems for text-to-image generation.
The project differentiates itself through a modular architecture that separates noise schedulers, pretrained model blocks, and pipeline compositions. This structure allows for the construction of custom generation workflows and the ability to swap individual components of the diffusion process.
The library covers a broad range of capabilities, including image manipulation tasks such as inpainting, super-resolution upscaling, and image-to-image translation. It also provides a training toolbox for fine-tuning pretrained models or developing custom diffusion models from scratch, alongside utilities for measuring model latency and memory consumption.